I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was